| Show i WING MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS well 1 Mark fil nt nf thos thor 0 with power ot of filant all birds bird of great and sustained powers er of flicht have tine one well marked they have long wings n i tit sharply point Lil ends and the g general dutli of this will be admitted if tin the rule be applied to species celebrated for rapid alight another pint p int is i s worthy orthy of notice the alpar ent speed peed of ali lit to an unpracticed e r is most A heron a as it ra and flaps languidly along alonar the cou arse ie of a brook appears not only to progress slowly but to use like its wings in liko lii inn and yet the duke of ar argyll lia lias pointed out and every one eriv im verity verify the statement tnt ement by his watch that the heron beron flaps its wings wins at a rate of nf not le lass than from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty times in a minute abi thesis is counting only the downa ard drolc tro lc so that the 1 bird mcall N makes from two handled bundled and forty to three hundred separate monc a conr ill short hort winged game birds fly with inar ieca dible velocity and any attempt to observe or count their win winy movements kayos kaves buta but a blurred impression upon tin the eye eve whilst in some home sp species bics so quick is the i vibratory ibra tory movement as to pre ent nt it licin seen driven grouse uy fly io down wind have been known to siy tun stun sportsmen by falling upon their heads A grouse does not move its wings a as rapidly as a partridge though a man was on once ce clean kno knocked elied out of a li lo by a grouse which bich had cannoned and killed another bird in in midair idair and colliding i is not an inai infrequent t quent occurrence As illustrating the thoc qualities of night flight the case cas of the or win indo dovir vcr may m ay iy be taken on a summer day da one may frequently see sec tins this pretty little falcon standing against the blue in v nhat bat seems seema an nab absolutely stationary position as sn suspended by an invisible silken thread iut but act let a meadow mouse u so much as move and it drops te tc the sward in an instant |
